"What's your favourite album?"

[freakytigger.livejournal.com]

Drawing heavily on that discussion we had on Poptimists a week or two ago, here's my latest Pitchfork column. I wanted something straightforward after last month's reaction-free one (which I'm still quite pleased with) and I appear instead to have accessed my inner Nick Hornby.

Comments

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[koganbot]

it seemed weird to me to buy a record where you didn't know you'd like everything on it

At age 9 I couldn't understand why anyone would buy singles. Why spend $1 for one song when you could get 12 for $3½.

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[freakytigger.livejournal.com]

Oh I didn't buy singles either! I used to tape them off the radio :)